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permanent habitation. It affords an opportunity to prepare for the next halting-place. Well begun is half done.
In the Jaina scriptures death has been analaysed with depth and precision. There are twelve ways of ignorant death and two of the wise one. The twelve kinds are as follows.
Samavayanga his mentioned seventeen kinds. We now take them one by one :
(1) Avicimarana-Vici means a wave of the ocean. As the water poured into the cup-shaped hollow formed by the joining of the two palms together becomes less and less every moment, so the life span of a man decreases moment after moment. A wavy pattern is formed also of life. With its disruption life comes to an end. Abhayadeva writes that the aggregate of karma particles is replaced by another aggregate. Their destruction every moment is Avici.'
Akalanka says that death is of two kinds: Nitya and Tadbhava. Every moment life is being shortened. This is the first kind. The second kind is the actual death. Twentieth birthday, for example, means the person's age is X-20. There are all minuses and no plus.
(2) Avadhimarana—It is the assumption of the same form of life as previously lived.
(3) Atyantika-It is not being reborn in the same form of existence.
(4) Balaya—It is the death of a fallen self-controlled person or of one writhing in pain because of hunger.
(5) Va'sārta—As a moth dies at the flame of a lamp, so dies one who is a slave to his sense-organs. There is the predominance of concentration that is revengeful or on worldly things.
(6) Antah'salya—It is death caused by some surgical instrument remaining inside inadvertently. It is death caused also by avoidance of self-criticism necessitated by transgression of vows and the consequent feeling of shame mixed with pride.
(7) Tadbhava—It is to court death when alive in the present form of existence.
(8) The ignorant death is of those who are engrossed in worldly affairs and shrouded by the darkness of ignorance and who are covetuous of worldly prosperity and delicacies.
(9) The wise death is of those who are self-disciplined and possessed of right vision, conduct and discrimination.
(10) The death of such as are restrained-cum-unrestrained is amateurish-wise one.
(11) Chadmastha—the death of such as are possessed of perceptual and inferential knowledge, scriptural knowledge, clairvoyance and
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